"any thoughts yet? i'm excited to share mine, because it's an interesting subject, but i'll wait for you, sir, since i wouldn't want to influence your independent conclusions.
as i traveled through the city, one person in brooklyn and one person in manhattan asked me where i was going, and i said to each, that i was looking for a …
"any thoughts yet? i'm excited to share mine, because it's an interesting subject, but i'll wait for you, sir, since i wouldn't want to influence your independent conclusions.
as i traveled through the city, one person in brooklyn and one person in manhattan asked me where i was going, and i said to each, that i was looking for a wise man to ask him a few questions. each said, "i'm wise, ask me," and i put to them the violations of the laws of rome and of noah that i discussed, which, as i am increasingly taxed, i will not again reiterate, in the interest of my time and yours. both said that they could see no way in which these laws had not been plainly violated, and that they would not be willing to offer any arguments for the respective defendants.
i moreover asked each of them if it was okay for the president of the united states to be surrounded at all times by another man's presidential-security-detail-sized private security detail. both realized, immediately, that this made the president functionally a hostage to the person in charge of the private security detail, and that this situation was a plain and serious national security risk.
if a woman who passes out joints in front of the store she used to clean & a man with mostly gold teeth who shows young men how much cash he has both realize this, immediately, why don't you?
or do you? that would be worse, so i hope you just didn't think about it.
later i asked a policeman if i could ask him a question or two, since i didn't want to distract him while he was on duty if he needed all his attention, and he said that i could. so i asked him what he would do if the attorney general of the united states directed him to arrest the president. he said, "well, you've got to follow your orders." i said, "what if the president was going to order whoever he could, the secret service, the fbi, the cia, to fight back?" he said, "well, you've got to follow your orders."
then someone asked me to take a photo of their tour group, then a teen in the tour group offered me two hundred dollars for my beanie, and in the meantime, the policeman had walked to the other side of his perimeter, so i followed him, and i asked him if i could ask him another question. i asked him what he thought of the situation i described above, in which a man surrounded by a presidential-security-detail-sized private security force under his own command was standing body to body with the president at all times. his eyes detectably widened, and he said, "i can't talk politics while i'm in the uniform, but if i weren't in the uniform, i'd have something to say about that."
later, while i was waiting for my final subway connection of this trip, a man was pacing on the platform, listening to a video or a podcast or some such in which someone was cogently discussing statistical evidence of vote altering in a county in georgia. i don't remember all the details, but it was something about there seeming to have been an algorithm that seemed to activate once a few hundred votes had been recorded in a district, the exact activation threshold depending on the local expected vote total, and which once activated would change harris votes to trump votes such that a sixty percent trump vote ratio would be maintained, and which would also deactivate at some point, such as when the total number of trump votes had attained some ratio to trump votes in the previous election, so as to avoid a too-large local increase in trump votes that might attract unwanted attention.
now, i am not an expert on such things, but when the train came, and we both got on, i sat down next to the man, and i said, "if those goofballs messed with votes, that's one more reason they're about to go down." he said, "something absolutely has to be done. with nixon, with bush, there was abuse of power, and nothing was done, and look where we are now." i said, "look, nixon resigned, and bush, you know, whatever you think, it was a difficult time. and i bet this votes thing is like nixon - i bet they didn't even have to, but they just couldn't help themselves. but there's something right now that i think is more serious, and i wouldn't be surprised if something happens really soon." i was about to get off, as i had gone several stops past my destination during our conversation, but he said, "hey, wait one more stop -- you can't go back the other way at this one without going out and around." i thanked him very much for saving me $2.90, and i proceeded to explain the situation with the private security detail, i don't recall what exactly he said about it, as i was pretty tired by this time, but i doubt he approved.
so, as you might imagine, i'm also curious about what thoughts you might have on the private security detail situation. hope to hear from you soon."
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"any thoughts yet? i'm excited to share mine, because it's an interesting subject, but i'll wait for you, sir, since i wouldn't want to influence your independent conclusions.
as i traveled through the city, one person in brooklyn and one person in manhattan asked me where i was going, and i said to each, that i was looking for a wise man to ask him a few questions. each said, "i'm wise, ask me," and i put to them the violations of the laws of rome and of noah that i discussed, which, as i am increasingly taxed, i will not again reiterate, in the interest of my time and yours. both said that they could see no way in which these laws had not been plainly violated, and that they would not be willing to offer any arguments for the respective defendants.
i moreover asked each of them if it was okay for the president of the united states to be surrounded at all times by another man's presidential-security-detail-sized private security detail. both realized, immediately, that this made the president functionally a hostage to the person in charge of the private security detail, and that this situation was a plain and serious national security risk.
if a woman who passes out joints in front of the store she used to clean & a man with mostly gold teeth who shows young men how much cash he has both realize this, immediately, why don't you?
or do you? that would be worse, so i hope you just didn't think about it.
later i asked a policeman if i could ask him a question or two, since i didn't want to distract him while he was on duty if he needed all his attention, and he said that i could. so i asked him what he would do if the attorney general of the united states directed him to arrest the president. he said, "well, you've got to follow your orders." i said, "what if the president was going to order whoever he could, the secret service, the fbi, the cia, to fight back?" he said, "well, you've got to follow your orders."
then someone asked me to take a photo of their tour group, then a teen in the tour group offered me two hundred dollars for my beanie, and in the meantime, the policeman had walked to the other side of his perimeter, so i followed him, and i asked him if i could ask him another question. i asked him what he thought of the situation i described above, in which a man surrounded by a presidential-security-detail-sized private security force under his own command was standing body to body with the president at all times. his eyes detectably widened, and he said, "i can't talk politics while i'm in the uniform, but if i weren't in the uniform, i'd have something to say about that."
later, while i was waiting for my final subway connection of this trip, a man was pacing on the platform, listening to a video or a podcast or some such in which someone was cogently discussing statistical evidence of vote altering in a county in georgia. i don't remember all the details, but it was something about there seeming to have been an algorithm that seemed to activate once a few hundred votes had been recorded in a district, the exact activation threshold depending on the local expected vote total, and which once activated would change harris votes to trump votes such that a sixty percent trump vote ratio would be maintained, and which would also deactivate at some point, such as when the total number of trump votes had attained some ratio to trump votes in the previous election, so as to avoid a too-large local increase in trump votes that might attract unwanted attention.
now, i am not an expert on such things, but when the train came, and we both got on, i sat down next to the man, and i said, "if those goofballs messed with votes, that's one more reason they're about to go down." he said, "something absolutely has to be done. with nixon, with bush, there was abuse of power, and nothing was done, and look where we are now." i said, "look, nixon resigned, and bush, you know, whatever you think, it was a difficult time. and i bet this votes thing is like nixon - i bet they didn't even have to, but they just couldn't help themselves. but there's something right now that i think is more serious, and i wouldn't be surprised if something happens really soon." i was about to get off, as i had gone several stops past my destination during our conversation, but he said, "hey, wait one more stop -- you can't go back the other way at this one without going out and around." i thanked him very much for saving me $2.90, and i proceeded to explain the situation with the private security detail, i don't recall what exactly he said about it, as i was pretty tired by this time, but i doubt he approved.
so, as you might imagine, i'm also curious about what thoughts you might have on the private security detail situation. hope to hear from you soon."